I think you might have misunderstood what this section in the forum is for. The administration section is for administering SolidWorks, SolidWorks PDM and other applications. It has nothing to do with the administration of your forum account. You should contact SolidWorks or your reseller to get help removing your account from the forum.

Online licensing is a super huge FIASCO or PITA. When you get constantly kicked off saying that there is no longer a license available to save your work because we're shutting down to the latest message that Solidworks is not enabled for my ID & won't start is really starting the blood to boil. Plus I can't get logged into the Solidworks Cad Admin…(Show moreShow less)

Update Number 3: The Visualize Paradox Hi everyone, just thought I'd add a little to my epic quest for online licensing. When I last left off, everything was launching and running JuuuuuuuuhST PEACHY! then towards Xmas time, I was working from home and started Visualize and to my dismay got the error that's been my bane of late. Well, I did…

Hey guys, I have a basic question, with regard to deciding when to upgrade. I have a lot of Inventor experience, but only about 1.5 years on SW. Inventor was known for adding a lot of content in one release, and implementing a lot of bug fixes in the next. Is SW similar, in your opinion? If so, which cycle would you consider 2018 vs. 2019? I…(Show moreShow less)

Might want to check out the file type nodes (sldprt, sldasm, slddrw) in pdm. It should be by default configured to check out model with referenced drawing. It might have been altered at one point away from default. Be careful with ‘try to check out all referenced.... ‘ option. It will auto select to check out ALL parts when you check out…

I've developed a workflow in the production vault. The workflow uses it's own serial counter, template and folder. I'll need to change the serial counter now that I've completed testing and I'm ready to get this into Production - in the existing Production folder too. I'm trying to figure out the best method to do so. I know I can't simply open…(Show moreShow less)

Is it a workflow that is like a pre loop to what the current workflow is doing? In that case, workflow links might be a good solution. Make it the default workflow for the category arguments and let files naturally use it as needed. If it’s replacing a one state or super simple workflow... Workflow links again. Push all the files from the…

My VAR is unable to provide updated instructions for clean uninstalling/reinstalling Solidworks. The instructions I've found online do not apply to SW 2018 on Win10 64bit. Can anyone point me to detailed instructions specific to a clean uninstall of SW2018 prior to installing SW2019? Thanks

..there are a few sites and videos showing this.. Clean Uninstall of SW - DASI Solutions .. if you have not already searched... https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=clean+uninstall+solidworks+2018&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Hi, can you guys help me? I have SolidWorks 2016 on my machine, but when I try to create a drawing, it freezes and closes the software. I uninstalled, removed the driver, updated the driver but it continues the same way. Video devices installed: Intel HD Graphics 630 NVIDIA Quadro P400 Looking for solutions I found that by…(Show moreShow less)

This will hopefully save some fellow CAD Admins and users headaches, since a lot of these details aren't well documented and only learned through trial & error. Our particular installation scenario is for 90+ users across multiple sites with the majority of SolidWorks software packages installed, including PDM, Electrical, all the Simulations,…(Show moreShow less)

So for my upcoming 2019 install I wanted to provide an update from last year's, and thought I'd share what I've created. Hopefully it helps some folks out. First, here is the "IT Install Script.bat" file, which is what our IT will use to push the installs out once our servers have been upgraded: @echo off echo . echo . …

When using the Admin Image Tool and using the Deploy Automatically function, my status is not updating. On the client computer, it is creating a log entry at the end of the install which reads, "This client does not have write permission to the logs directory: <SWX install location>\SW17_SP3.0\64bit\logs\\SBDEV-ENOW7. Notice the double back…(Show moreShow less)

To close the loop on this in case anyone searches for the problem, this is the solution I found. The double backslash in my original post was a "red herring". I was actually able to get the status updates from the installs by giving the group "Everyone" write and modify permissions to the folder <SolidWorks install location>\64bit\logs. You…

I wanted to start a new thread where we can collect some of the craziest messages that we get when working with solidworks. Please try to insert the image into the text using the insert image button. Also, try not to post here unless you have an image to contribute, so that there is not too much text in between each image. Anyone have the chinese…(Show moreShow less)